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Allied Able

Allied Able

Lightweight, yet burly. Tight, yet agile. Point in any direction and go.

The ABLE begs to be ripped around on chunky gravel, hardpack dirt, fire roads and singletrack. Purpose-built for wider tires, but with a shorter rear end for telepathic handling. Proven on the brutal terrain of Unbound 200 where the ABLE was piloted to victory.  This bike is equally at home racing gravel or getting rowdy on your local trails, built for maximum fun!

Sample Build Options - (Any build can be customized or let us design your dream bike)

Red AXS

SRAM Red AXS 1x12 groupset, Industry Nine UL250 Carbon CX 700 Wheelset, FSA K-Wing AGX Carbon Handlebar      

As always, you can change anything in the build, and oh ya, pick your frame color!

$10,255.00

Force AXS

SRAM Force AXS 1x12 Build Group, Industry Nine UL250 CX 700 Wheelset, FSA K-Wing AGX Carbon Handlebar.

As always, you can change anything in the build, and oh ya, pick your frame color!

$7,925.00


GRX 810

Shimano GRX Mech 1x Build Group,    Industry Nine 1/1 GRCX 700 Wheelset,    FSA Adventure Compact Handlebar 

As always, you can change anything in the build, and oh ya, pick your frame color!

$6,320.00

     

Meet the Able

The ABLE is a high-performance off-road machine that tilts more towards the “mountain skinny” side of the gravel segment. It prefers a big tire but keeps a short rear end - in fact, it’s the same as the ALLROAD at 420mm. This is achieved by the most striking feature on the bike - the elevated drive-side chainstay.

Getting a chainstay this short with high tire volume is a packaging exercise because the chainring, chainstay, and tire all compete for space behind the bottom bracket. On mountain bikes this problem is addressed by widening the bottom bracket -- but that affects Q factor in a negative way. When we made the decision to make the ABLE 1X-specific it opened the design envelope and ultimately led to the decision to elevate the chainstay. By moving it up and out of the way we could make it extremely wide resulting in an incredibly responsive ride.

While our award-winning ALLROAD is a Swiss Army knife for a majority of mixed surface riding, when the path gets rambunctious its road-racing genes might seem lacking. We found ourselves on occasion wanting a bike that was equally engineered, but felt more at home on steeper, rockier and more rugged terrain. It was from this desire that the ABLE was born. It’s lightweight, tight, durable and agile. You can point it in any direction and go.

The ABLE begs to be ripped around on singletrack, fire roads, hardpack dirt, and chunky gravel. Proven on the brutal roads of the 2019 Dirty Kanza where ALLIED athletes Colin Strickland and Amity Rockwell piloted their ABLEs to overall victory.

Key Features

MAXIMUM CLEARANCE
              
700x47 (or 650x55) front and 700x43 (or 650x47) rear
                                                
BOTTLE MOUNTS
              
2x Downtube, Seat Tube and Top Tube bag (or 4th bottle)
                                                
CHAINSTAY
              
420mm length, elevated on the drive side
                                                
DRIVETRAIN
              
Purpose-built for 1x
                                                
GEOMETRY
              
Geometry optimized for gravel and other off-road riding with a headtube angle of 71 degrees and a trail of 66mm for most sizes, with a stack slightly taller than the Allroad and Alfa Disc

Allied Able